The Newberry Library, Chicago, contains a distinguished music collection, rare book, manuscript, and print holdings, and archives relevant both to the United States (and its Indian populations) and to the city of Chicago. Thus it is understandable that a small special codicil, which entered the Library holdings in 1948, should have entered as an inconspicuous item in a splendid context. It was a collection of songs, centering in American twentieth-century works and containing an unprecedented emphasis on music by women composers—characteristics not considered worthy of special attention at that time. But changing focus within musical scholarship has brought about a volte-face; and it is now quite respectable to display interest in music by American, twentieth-century, and even women composers. It is therefore likely that this collection will prove of considerable interest at this time.

The collection is the library of songs that comprised the working music of Janet Fairbank (1903-1947); her library reflects her special interests and her energy in pursuing them. As now housed in the Newberry Library, it consists of twenty-five boxes: eight American, five French, two German, two British, one Spanish, one Scandinavian, Russian and Hungarian, and one Italian, in addition to three boxes of English and French anthologies, one of miscellaneous arias, songs, and vocalises, and one box of orchestrations. The collection remains uncatalogued.¹

Janet Fairbank was a member of a wealthy and culturally prominent Chicago family. Her grandfather was Nathaniel K. Fairbank, called a "pioneer Chicago millionaire" (Gold Dust cleanser); and her father, Kellogg Fairbank, who graduated from Harvard (A.B., 1890 and LL.B., 1893), had been admitted to the Illinois bar. In 1900 (at the age of thirty-one) he married Janet Ayer. Janet Fairbank was the first of three children and their only daughter. Janet Ayer Fairbank, the mother, was an active political figure, a worker for women's suffrage and a member of the Illinois Democratic National Committee from 1924. She was also an author (plays and novels, the most famous of which was probably The Bright Land). She outlived her daughter by four years. Her sister, Margaret Ayer Barnes, won a Pulitzer Prize with her novel Years of Grace. Young Janet seems to have entered a somewhat competitive and highly social world with intelligence and determination; she attended Radcliffe College, was an excellent student, and was graduated cum laude in 1923.

Fairbank as a young woman bore both the advantages and the burdens of her position and wealth. The burdens were not to be underestimated: she was of undeniable intelligence and seriousness, and pursued a career as a singer in the shadow of her famous mother and aunt while also facing a prejudice against women of means who seek a place on the stage, a prejudice in full cry in the thirties. Her preparation was extensive and thorough; her desire for excellence was unremitting. Her debut in Chicago in 1931 was followed by a debut in Europe in 1932 and an initial appearance in opera (as Zerlina in Don Giovanni) in 1933. She appeared with the San Carlo Opera in Chicago in 1934 and with the Chicago Opera in 1934-35 and in 1940-41.

Her large scrapbook (in the Special Collections section of the Newberry Library) records her career through the late 1940s. She continued to study (with Richard De Young of Chicago after 1932), purchased full-page ads in Musical America, and seems to have sung whenever and wherever she could; but she had to bear the contumely of being reviewed in the Society section as often as in the music pages.

Her intelligence seems to have surpassed her musical gifts. Many of the reviews and the letters of appreciation so carefully pasted into her scrapbook were written by family friends and connections (a lovely example, from Thornton Wilder, is datelined "June 6, 1934—The Best University"). But one, by the critic Karleton Hackett, in the Chicago Evening Post of November 20, 1931, is probably an accurate assessment of her performing stature:

The voice is light, of mezzo-soprano timbre, without natural warmth and not great range nor volume, but clear and true. . . . She thinks primarily the word values . . . without the keen sense for the melodic line or for the beauty of the tone.

It is easy to speculate that her perceptive intelligence, faced with unyielding facts of her own limitations and the impossibility of critical success in operatic and standard concert repertoire along with her financial independence, led her to the espousal of the cause of contemporary music. She set herself to obtain and to study the works of American (and some other) composers; it is said that she was of substantial financial support to more than a few, and there can be no question of her moral support. In eight New York programs, Janet Fairbank premiered over one hundred American songs.

The task that she set herself required imagination, persistence, courage, discernment, and financial resources—none of these guaranteed to singers of perhaps more abundant vocal gifts. She had to search out composers and their materials, buy manuscripts (or borrow them and have them photographed or photostated), sift out a huge amount of music unknown to her or anybody else, and hire pianists to work over songs with her—but the winnowing process was her own and the judgments were her own. The Newberry Library notice of July 1948 states that she "studied over 3,000 compositions" central to her interests.

I remember Fairbank in the early and mid-forties, coming to our apartment on the south side of Chicago with a pile of music and singing through it with my mother (whose unparalleled reputation as a sight-reader had led Fairbank to her); in those sessions I first heard the songs of over two dozen Americans (at a conservative estimate) from Charles Ives, Henry Hadley, and Mrs. H.H.A. Beach, to Paul Bowles, Irwin Fischer, Mary Howe, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Ned Rorem, and many others. And I heard also the splendid Fables of Fontaine settings by Marcelle de Manziarly and other French twentieth-century music. (Fairbank's devotion to French song was second only to her devotion to American song—she gave an all-Poulenc program in Chicago in 1946.) In her sessions with my mother, Fairbank was extremely business-like, never unpleasant but certainly matter-of-fact rather than warm, and more able to project determination than enthusiasm. She did not comment upon the songs, nor did she seek comments from my mother (who saved them for later family discussion). Difficulties did not phase her; she was obviously highly motivated and well disciplined. Many of the songs she brought several times; others she read through only once or twice.

About 130 composers are represented in the Collection, by far the greatest number with unpublished works (such composers as Bacon and Ives—whose works together make up a majority of the published music in the collection—published their own music). Much of it bears rehearsal marks that are worth studying. And several bear personal inscriptions as well, some of them testifying to the warm regard of the composers for their singing advocate. Fairbank's dedication is mirrored perhaps the most strongly in the number of copies in her own hand (in several cases a second copy in another key). But many manuscripts are clearly in the hands of the composers—the originals certainly include Bauer, Becker, Carpenter, Cage, Elwell, and Thomson, among others.

The Collection represents a remarkable achievement for one individual. Fairbank's judgment was keen and her programming (which should be studied in tandem with the music) amazingly accurate as a judgment of musical value. Her untimely death at forty-four kept her from seeing those values confirmed in the careers of the composers she aided. Her bequest to the Newberry Library may well clarify some of the sifting evaluation of the post-war years. The legacy of Janet Fairbank is more than the shell of a collection: she was an activator in that process and may well have exercised a considerable influence. We are in her debt.

 

PRELIMINARY LIST OF WORKS IN THE FAIRBANK COLLECTION

The list of works in the Fairbank Collection is presented exactly as it is housed. To change Hicks, P.G. to Glanville-Hicks, P(eggy), for example, or to exclude Hicks, Reinecke, Shepherd, and Shaw from the list because they more properly belong under non-American categories, would make the music impossible to find. Details are as accurate as a preliminary study can make them, but corrections will doubtless follow upon substantial study of the collection.

Abbreviations used for purposes of this list are designed to reflect the large number of manuscript works in the collection, and to distinguish between original and duplicated materials, and, among the latter, between photostats (presumably made by Fairbank) and ozalid or planographic copies (presumably made by the composers). A few proof sheet copies are also in the collection. The abbreviations are:

Ms: manuscript (not necessarily autograph)
oz: ozalid or other planographic copy of a manuscript
ph: photostat
neg: negative print
©: copyright (date), indicating that the work is published
*: inscribed to Fairbank by composer
**: dedicated to Fairbank

Allanbrook, Douglas	Ash Wednesday—Aria from the Cantata (Eliot) Ms., 1947
Ames, Wm. T.	Dream Pang (Frost) oz., n.d.
	Interpreter (Johns) oz., n.d.
	Judgment (Benet) oz., n.d.
	Rapid Transit (no author given) oz., n.d.*
	To the thawing wind (Frost) Ms., n.d.*
Antheil, George	Five songs—1919-1920 (Crapsey) 1919-20, ©1934
Bacon, Ernst	Ten songs (Whitman, Goethe, Lenan, Rückert, Eichendorff, Licher, Lithe) ©1928
	Eight songs from Walt Whitman, ©1930
	Bows and arrows (no author given) oz., n.d.
	Adam and Eve (American folk) ©1946, 2 copies
	Lonesome Grove (American folk) ©1946
	Four songs for soprano (Shakespeare, Lewis, Millay) ©1946
	Little Mohee (On Top of Old Smoky, folk song) n.d.
	Along unpaved roads (American folk) ©1944, 8 songs
	Sucking cider and sinful shoe, Ms., n.d.
	Of a feather (Welch) Ms., n.d., 5 songs
	Five poems by Emily Dickinson, ©1944
	It's all I have to bring today, Ms., 2 copies
	The lamb (Blake) Ms., 1947**
	Songs to Emily Dickinson, oz., n.d.
Ballantine, Edward	Four lyrical satires: Upon my bed of pain, The flower loves the nightingale, Clouds, Come out, my love, into the moon light, Ms., ©1945, 2 copies of songs 1 and 3
Barber, Samuel	The daisies (Stephens) ©1936
	With rue my heart is laden (Housman) ©1936
	Bessie bobtail (Stephens) ©1936
	The queen's face on the summery corn (Horan) Ms., ©1944, 2 copies
	Rain has fallen (Joyce) ©1939
	I hear an army (Joyce) ©1939
	A nun takes the veil (Hopkins) ©1941
	Sure on this shining night (Agee) ©1941
	Dover beach (Arnold) ©1936
Bauer, Marion	The harp (no author given) Ms., n.d.
	To losers (Frost) n.d.*
	Midsummer dreams (Fletcher) ©1924
Beach, Mrs. H.H.A.	The year's at the spring (Browning) ©1900 and 1928
Becker, John	The pool (H.D.) Ms., n.d.
	The sea (H.D.) Ms., n.d.
	3 short songs (M.C. Becker) Ms., n.d.,** 2 copies
	Psalm of love (Baum, trans. Bithell) Ms., n.d.
	A song (Joyce) Ms., n.d.
	Separation on the River Kiang (Richaku, trans. Pound) Ms., n.d.
	4 poems from the Japanese, Ms.
Beecher, Carl	Thistle down (Crew, trans. Page) ©1923
Beeson, Jack	Three songs (Blake) oz., 1945 (2 copies of song 3)
	Never seek to tell thy love (Blake) Ms., 1945
Behrend, Jeanne	Advice to a girl (Teasdale) oz., 1943
	Five songs (Teasdale) oz., 1932, 1933, 1938
	A minor bird (R. Frost) oz., 1943
	Plea for grace (Krause) oz., 1942
	Proche (Quennell) oz., 1940
Bergsma, William	Six songs, oz., 2 copies
Bernstein, Leonard	I hate music, ©1943
Birch, Helen Louise	A creed is a rod (Swinburne) Ms., n.d.
	Moods (Yeats) ©1915
	Requiescat (Arnold) ©1915
	Aedh laments the loss of love (Yeats) ©1915
	Cyclamen (Field) Ms., n.d.
	Atalanta (Swinburne) Ms.
Bonvalot, Antony	Carmen (XI) (Latin, Horatio) Ms., 1942
Bosmaus, Arthur	2 Folksongs from the planet Mars, ©1946
Bowles, Paul	In the woods (no author given) ph., 1944
	They can not stop death (Massey) ph., 1944
	Heaven grass (Williams) ph., n.d.
	A little closer please (Saroyan) ©1941
	Cuatro canciones de Garcia Lorca, ph., 1943
	Evening (Hepburn) oz., 1941
	Violet (Hepburn) oz., 1941
	On a quiet conscience (Charles I) Ms., 1945
	Sugar in the cane (Williams) ©1946
	Cabin (Williams) ©1946
	Blue bell mountain (J. Bowles) ph., n.d.
	Song of an old woman (J. Bowles) ph., 1942
	Once a lady was here, oz., 2 copies
	Memnon (Cocteau) ph., neg., 1935
	Le sourire (Cocteau) ph., neg., 1935
	In the platinum forest (no author given) oz., 1932
	Ballade (P. Bowles) oz., 1945
	Song for my sister (Ford) oz., 1943
	This place of fire (D.H. Lawrence) ph., neg., 1945
	Valse (no author given) ph., neg., n.d.
	Lonesome man (Williams) ph., n.d., 2 copies
	Three, oz., and proof sheets, 1946, ©1947, 2 copies
	Stream (Hepburn) oz., 1941
	American folk songs (W.P.A. project) oz., n.d.
	David (F. Frost) ©1945
	Night without sleep (Ford) ph., 1943
	When I die (no author given) ph., n.d.
	3 songs (Anon. & O'Sullivan) oz., n.d.
Bricken, Carl	Sagesse (Verlaine) oz., n.d.
	Il pleure dans mon coeur (Verlaine) oz., n.d.
	Le ciel (Verlaine) Ms., n.d.
	Fate, o miller (RLS) Ms., n.d.
	The far-farer (RLS) ph., n.d.
	Peace my heart (Tagore) Ms., n.d.
Britain, Radie	Stillness (Lester Luther) oz., n.d.
	Withered flowers (Schreyvogt) ©1926
	Nirvana (Wheelock) ©1927
Cage, John	The wonderful widow of Eighteen Springs, Ms., 1942**
Carpenter, John Allen	The cock shall crow (R.L. Stevenson) ©1912
	The Lawd is smiling through the do, ©1918
	When the misty shadows glide, ©1912, 2 copies
	The green river (Lord Alfred Douglas) Ms., ©1912, 2 copies
	Dansons la gigue (Verlaine) ©1912
	Il pleure dans mon coeur (Verlaine) ©1912
	Gitanjali (Tagore) ©1914, 6 songs, 2 copies
	Berceuse de guerre (Cammaerts) ©1918
	Les silhouettes (Wilde) ©1913
	To a young gentleman (Confucius, trans. H.A. Giles) Ms., 1916
	Water colors (4 Chinese poems) ©1916
	Le petit cimetière (Havet) ph.
	Les cheminées rouge (Havet) ph., 1934
	Cradle song (Wm. Blake) ©1912
	Serenade (Sassoon) ©1921
	Khaki Sammy (J.A. Carpenter) ©1917
	May, the maiden (Lanier) ©1912
	Home road (J.A. Carpenter) ©1917, 2 copies
	Slumber song (Sassoon) 1920, ©1921
	On a screen (No. 1 of Water colors, R.V., Li Po) Ms., n.d., ©1916
	The player queen (Yeats) ©1915
	The day is no more (Tagore) ©1915
	Her voice (Wilde) ©1913
	Looking glass river (Stevenson) ©1912
	When little boys sing (John & Rue Carpenter) bound, ©1907
	Improving songs for anxious children, bound, ©1907, 2 copies
Carter, Elliott	Dust of snow (Frost) 1942, ©1947
	The rose family, Ms., 1942, ©1947, 2 copies
	Voyage (Hart Crane) ©1945*
Cascarino, Romeo	Seven songs (Teasdale, Frost, Henrick) oz., 1941
de Cevee, Alice	Shadows (Paula Long) ph., n.d.
	The owl and the pussy cat (Lear) ©1946
	The flight (Teasdale) ph., n.d.
	Deserted farm (F. Frost) Ms., n.d.
	Down by the Sally Gardens (Yeats) ©1941
	Anniversary (Paula Long) ©1940
Chanler, Theodore	The flight (L. Feeney) oz., 1944
	The lamb (Blake) ©1946
	Memory (Blake) oz., ©1946
	The doves (L. Feeney) oz., n.d.
	Eight epitaphs (De la Mare) oz., ©1939
	I rise when you enter (L. Feeney) oz., 1942, ©1945, 2 copies
	These my Ophelia (MacLeish) oz., n.d.
	The children (L. Feeney) oz., 1942, ©1946, 3 copies
Chadwick, G.W.	Danza (Arlo Bates) ©1885
Citkowitz, Israel	Five songs (Joyce) ©1930
Cole, Rossetter G.	Love's invocation (Phoebe Cary) ©1922*
Cowell, Henry	Little black boy (Blake) oz., 1946
	The donkey (Chesterton) oz., 1946
	Three anti-modernist songs (ed. Slonimsky) oz., 1938
Creston, Paul	Sonnet I (Ficke) Ms., n.d.
	Sonnet II (Ficke) Ms., n.d.
	Three sonnets (Ficke) oz., 1936
	Psalm XXIII (proof sheets) 1945
Crist, Bainbridge	Into a ship dreaming (De la Mare) ©1918
	Coloured stars (Chinese, trans. E. Powys Mathers) ©1921
De Lamarter, Eric	Gifts (Teasdale) ©1920
	Love-free (Teasdale) ©1920
	Air impromptu (Piper) Ms., n.d.
Dello Joio, Norman	Milldoors (Sandburg) oz., n.d.
Diamond, David	David mourns for Absalom, ph., ph. neg., 1946, 2 copies
	Brigid's song (Joyce) ph., ph. neg., 1946, 2 copies
	Seven songs (copies of all but Billy in the Darbies; Cummings, Mansfield, La Fontaine, Stringham, McCullers) ©1946
	To Lucasta, on going to the wars (Lovelace) oz., 1944
	Five songs (Shakespeare) ©1945
	Epitaph (Melville) oz., 1945
	Music when soft voices die (Shelley) ©1944
	Let nothing disturb thee (Sr. Theresa of Avila) ©1946
	On death (Clare) ©1944
	César (Valéry) oz., 1940
Dougherty, Celius	The first Christmas (E. Fleming) oz., n.d.
	Pied beauty (Hopkins) Ms., n.d.
	The Song of the Jasmin (Arabian Nights) oz., n.d.
	Pianissimo (Collins) n.d.
	Heaven-Haven (Hopkins) Ms., n.d.
Duke, John	XXth Century (Hillyer) oz., 1935
	Dirge (Crapsey) oz., n.d.
	Catalog (Rosalie Moore) oz., n.d.
	At the aquarium (Max Eastman) oz., n.d.
	Dead kitten (Hay) oz., n.d.
	My soul is an enchanted boat (Shelley) oz., n.d.
	To Karen, singing (Duke) oz., 1944, ©1946, 2 copies
	Rapunzel (Crapsey) oz., n.d.
	Wild swans (Millay) oz., n.d.
	Loveliest of trees (Housman) ©1934
	Bells in the rain (Wylie) oz., 1945
Eakin, Vera	Flamenco (Hitchcock) ©1937
	I have seen silence (Middleton) oz., n.d.
	Wind and girl (Cobham) oz., n.d.
Edmunds, John	Absalom (Gleason) oz., n.d.
	The conclusion (Raleigh) oz., 1943
	Elegy & Ground (Purcell Airs) oz.
	Morning hymn (Purcell Airs) oz.
	Evening hymn (Purcell Airs) oz.
	Here the deities approve (Purcell Airs) oz.
	Isle of Portland (Housman) oz., 1935, 2 copies
	Milkmaids (Anon.) oz., 1946
	The shepherd boy sings (Bunyan) oz., 1946**
	Ballad of the cherry tree (Anon.) oz., 1938
	Heart of the woman (Yeats) oz., n.d.
	The falcon (Anon.) oz., 1938, 2 copies, 1 bound
	Jerusalem (Blake) oz., 1942, 2 copies, 1 bound
	The cuckoo (Shakespeare) oz., 1936, bound
	Dirge (Landor) oz., 1939, bound
	The lonely (AE) oz., 1935, 2 copies, 1 bound
	The still river (Scottish) oz., 1939, bound
	Second birth (Gleason) oz., n.d., bound
	The Christ Child (Southwell) oz., 1940, bound
	O Death, rock me asleep (Anne Boleyn) oz., 1939, bound
	Edward (Border Ballads) oz., 1939
	Mother, I cannot mind the wheel (Landor) oz., 1939
	Loveliest of trees (Housman) oz., 1935
	Proche (Quennell) oz., 1940
	The pigs (De la Mare) oz., 1944-45-46
Elwell, Herbert	The ousel-cock (Shakespeare) oz., n.d.
	Renouncement (Meynell) ©1942
	Glittering grief (Lowe) oz., n.d.
	In the mountains (Chang Yu, trans. Pope and Adams) oz., ©1946
	Suffolk owl (Shakespeare) oz., n.d.
	Service of all the dead (D.H. Lawrence) oz., n.d.
	Music I heard (Aiken) oz., n.d.
Engel, Carl	The sea shell (A. Lowell) ©1911
Farwell, Arthur	As if the sea (E. Dickinson) ph., 1936
	Unto me (E. Dickinson) ph. neg., 1936
	With a flower (E. Dickinson) ph. neg., 1940
	Song of Proserpine (Shelley) 1943
Fenner, Beatrice	I wonder, ©1925
Fine, Vivian	Daybreak (Donne) oz., n.d.
	Spring's welcome (Lyly) oz., 1937
Finney, Ross Lee	Poor Richard (B. Franklin) oz., 1946, 7 songs, bound
	Pot of earth (MacLeish) oz., 1934, 5 songs, bound
Fischer, Irwin	Sea-bird (Percy) Ms., 1933
	Song of the willow branches (M. Fischer) oz., 1931
	Newcomer (Fitch) oz., n.d.
	You were glad tonight (Sassoon) oz., n.d.
	Stampede (Seeley) oz., 1937
Foch, Dirk	Chinese ode (Hafiz-Bethge, trans. Mattullath) ©1920
	Three moods (Hatis) ©1926
Forrest, Hamilton	Song of Loneliness (Tietjens) ph. neg., n.d.
	An arabesque, ©1926
	Aubade (Darenant) Ms., n.d.
	Out of the blackness (Dawson) Ms., n.d.
	Vanished love (Dawson) Ms., n.d.
	The bargain (Sidney) Ms., n.d.
Foss, Lucas	Where the bee sucks (Shakespeare) oz., 1940
Fuleihan, Anis	To the young prince (Brooke) ©1944
Galajikian, Florence	Speak to me love (Tagore) Ms., n.d.
	Interpretations (Aikins) Ms., n.d.
Ganz, Rudolph	A memory (Breid) 1918, ©1919
Gardiner, Julian	Afterwards (Hardy) oz., n.d.
	An east end curate, oz.
	Had I known (Hardy) oz., n.d.
	The oxen (Hardy) oz., n.d.
	Shepherdess sons (Hardy) oz., n.d.
	The second visit (Hardy) oz., n.d.
	Proud songsters (Hardy) oz., n.d.
	Exhortation (Hardy) oz., n.d.
	Midnight on the G.W.R. (Hardy) oz., n.d.
	Weathers (Hardy) oz., n.d.
Gassman, Remi	Serenade (K. Kilmer) ©1947
Glazer, Frank	Yellow leaves (Emmet) ©1941
	I fear thy kisses (Shelley) ©1939
Golde, Walter	To an invalid (MacDougall) ©1924
Grant-Schaefer, G.A.	In the moonlight (French folk) ©1922
	Down to the crystal streamlet (French folk) ©1921, 2 copies
Griffes, Charles	Upon their grave (Heine, trans. Untermeyer) ©1941
	Elves (Eichendorff, trans. Untermeyer) ©1941
	Half-ring moon (Tabb) ©1941
	By a lovely forest pathway (Lenan, trans. Chapman) ©1909
	In a myrtle shade (Blake) ©1918
	Symphony in yellow (Wilde) ©1915
	Thy dark eyes to mine (MacLeod) ©1918
Hadley, Henry	The time of parting (Tagane) ©1921
	My true love (Sydney) ©1924
	Sentimental colloquy (Verlaine, trans. Mattullath) ©1923
Hageman, Richard	At the well (Tagore) ©1919
	Miranda (Belloc) ©1940
	Do not go, my love (Tagore) ©1917, 2 copies
Hall, Betty S.	Lost (no author given) Ms., n.d.
Harris, Roy	La primavera (Spanish folk, trans. Lummis) oz., 1942
	Evening song (Tennyson) ©1942
	Waitin' (no author given) ©1942
Harris, Russell	Nocturne ma desert brick yard (Sandburg) Ms., n.d.
Harrison, Lou	Sanctus, Ms., oz., 1940, 2 copies
Helm, Everett	Prairie waters by night (Sandburg) oz., n.d., 2 copies
	Eleventh avenue racket (Sandburg) oz., n.d.
	Moo! (Sandburg) oz., n.d.
	She is not fair (H. Coleridge) oz., n.d.
	Romance (RLS) oz., 1941
	Lament (Chatterton) oz., 1941
	It is so long (Cummings) oz., 1946
	If I have made (Cummings) oz., n.d.
	Alleluia (Cummings) oz., 1946
	Shall I compare thee (Shakespeare) oz., n.d.**
Henry, Harold	Gather ye rose buds while ye may (Herrick) ©1920
	Christmas song (The Barron Bruchlos at the age of five) oz., n.d.*
	The child's grace (Herrick) oz., n.d.*
Hicks, P. Glanville	Five songs (Housman) 1945
Hoffman, Adolf G.	A slumber song (Wathall) oz., n.d.
	Light (Bourdillon) oz., n.d.
	Caeli (Bourdillon) oz., n.d.
Hopkinson, Francis	Six songs—Colonial love lyrics, bound
Howe, Mary	Innisfree (Yeats) ph., n.d.
	Ripe apples (Speyer) ©1939
	A strange story (Wylie) oz., ©1947, 2 copies
	Fair Annet's song (Wylie) ph.
Hyde, Herbert	Seventeen songs (Aldis) ©1928
	Long ago (W.I. Lincoln Adams) ©1916
Imbrie, Andrew	November song (Person) oz., 1945
	Letter from Hawaii (Wm. Meredith) 1946
Ives, Chas.	114 songs, 1922, bound
	34 songs (New Music, Oct. 1933) 1935, bound
	18 songs (New Music, Oct. 1935) 1933, bound
James, Philip	Transit (Sholl) ©1915
Just, Robert H.	Nine songs of Sappho: Invocation, Moon & Stars, The rose, American song, Long ago, Aphrodite's doves (O'Hara) ©1910
Kernochan, Marshall	A water lily at evening (Bourdillan) Ms., 1908
	Lilacs (A. Livingston)
Klein, John	To evening (Hislop) ©1947
	Sonnet to the sea (Hislop) ©1947
Klemm, Gustav	Candles (N. Buckley) ©1939
	September day (Teasdale) ©1940
Kohs, Ellis B.	Three flowers (W.C. Williams) oz., 1946
Lamb, Hubert	Three songs (Yeats, Frost, Housman) oz., 1944*
Lamont, Hubert	Music (A. Lowell) Ms., 1940
	Nostalgia (A. Lowell) Ms., 1940
Lenel, Ludwig	Four songs (Fletcher, Skelton, anon., Nashe) oz., n.d.
	Five songs (Polish folk) oz., 1938-1943*
Lessard, John	Ariel's song (Shakespeare) Ms.
Lockwood, Normand	Sitting in a tree (e.e. cummings) oz., 1943
	I have painted Elijah (Anon., trans. Harlfeldt) oz., 1943
	Sonnet (e.e. cummings) oz., 1943
	Variations on a popular theme (Fenton) oz., 1943**
	The pasture (Frost) oz., 1941
	Because I could not stop for death (E. Dickinson) oz., n.d.
	River magic (Byron) oz., 1945
	Love's secret (Blake) Ms., 1943
	Slumber song (Ledoux) oz., 1945, 2 copies
	Out of May's shows (Whitman) oz., 1939/1945
Lee, Adele Bohling	Seal lullaby (Kipling) Ms., 1932
Manning, Kathleen Lockhart	Sketches of Paris (Manning) ©1925, cycle of 6 songs
Marshall, Elizabeth C.	My candle (Millay) oz., n.d.
	Alone (Sassoon) oz., n.d.
	When you have left me (Aiken) oz., n.d.
	Remembered (Aiken) oz., n.d.
Mitchell, Edward	Loveliest of trees (Housman) oz., n.d.
	Today's your natal day (C. Rossetti) oz.
	In the morning (Housman) oz., 1942
	The fisher in the wood (Staver) oz., n.d.
Mitchell, Leeds	The look (Teasdale) ©1926
	Who loves the rain (Shaw) ©1926
	Twilight (Teasdale) ©1926
Mittler, Franz	Happy ending to a romance (Busch) oz.
	The last song (no author given) n.d.
	In flaming beauty (no author given) n.d.
	Secret love (Busch) n.d.
	Morning song (no author given) n.d.
	A song to May (Morike) ©1924
	Country churches (Snyder) n.d.
	Forgive (Busch) n.d.
	A happy island (no author given) n.d.
	Evensong (Vigilie) n.d.
	Over the mountain (Busse) n.d.
	Maria Verkundigung (Geigor) ©1921*
Moore, Douglas	2 songs from The Devil and Daniel Webster—I've got a ram, Goliath (Benet) ©1941, and Now may there be a blessing (Benet) ©1941
	Brown penny (Yeats) oz., n.d.
	The cuckoo (Shakespeare) oz., n.d.
	Not this alone (Underwood) oz., n.d.
	Sigh no more, ladies (Shakespeare) oz., n.d.
	Come away death (Shakespeare) oz., n.d.
	The sea that is my songs (trans. Schaffy) oz., n.d.
	3 divine sonnets (Donne) oz., 1942
	O mistress mine (Shakespeare) oz., n.d.
	Blow, blow (Shakespeare) oz., n.d.
	Under the greenwood tree (Shakespeare) oz., 1944
Mopper, Irving	All in one breath (Morton) Ms., n.d.
	Pierrot (Teasdale) Ms., 1938
Naginski, Charles	The fog (Sandburg) oz., 1939
	7th Avenue (Rukeyser) oz., 1939
	Nightsong at Amalfi (Teasdale) oz., 1939
	Richard Cory (Robinson) oz., 1939
	The pasture (R. Frost) Ms., 1939
	A bird came down the walk (E. Dickinson) oz., 1940
	Nonsense-alphabet (Lea.) oz., 1939
	Look down, fair moon (Whitman) ©1942
	Under the harvest moon (Sandburg) ©1940
Norden, Lindsay	The sheep (O'Sullivan) oz., 1942
	Feast (Millay) oz., n.d.
	Elegy and fair Annette's song (Wylie) Ms., n.d.
	Is there a flower (Cummings) oz., n.d.
	Can life be a blessing (Dryden) Ms., n.d.
	The arrival (Warner) oz., 1940
	Who knows (Cummings) oz., n.d.
	Madrigal II (no author given) Ms., n.d.
	Ashes of life (Millay) oz., n.d.
	Time, I dare thee to discover (Dryden) Ms., n.d.
	Praise (O'Sullivan) oz., 1935
	Lacrima Christi (Mannes) oz., 1932
	If there are any heavens (Cummings) oz., 1941
	Embroidery (Prude) oz., 1941
	Lullaby for 1940 children (Ackland) oz., n.d.
	There shall be more joy (Ford) ©1938
	This is the shape of the leaf (Aiken) ©1938
	Dirge for the nameless (Prude) ©1945
Oakes, Isaire Hesse	You spotted snakes (Shakespeare) Ms., n.d.
	Come into these yellow sands (Shakespeare) Ms., n.d.
	Over hill, over dale (Shakespeare) Ms., n.d.
Olmstead, Clarence	Thy sweet singing (Shelley) ©1923, 1939
Osborne, Willson	5 songs from Chamber Music (Joyce) oz., n.d.
Parris, Robert	My garden (Brown) oz., n.d.
	Silver (De la Mare) oz., 1946
	Song (Crapsey) oz., 1947
	The parting guest (Riley) oz.
Pinkham, Daniel	The falcon (Anon.) oz., 1947**
	No. 6 of seven epigrams (Hillyer) oz., 1944, rev. 1945
	Psalm 79, oz., n.d.
	Nocturne (Hillyer) oz., 1944
	Ave regina coelorum, oz., 1944, rev. 1945
	Heaven-Haven (Hopkins) oz., 1947*
Porter, Quincy	Music when soft voices die (Shelley) oz., n.d.
Quashen, Ben	Harlem night song, oz.
	Summer night (Hughes) oz., n.d.
	Dance africaine, oz.
Rachlin, Ezra	Pierrot (Teasdale) oz., ©1947
	I shall not care (Teasdale) oz., ©1947
Raphling, Sam	Dreams in the dusk (Sandburg) Ms., n.d.
	Between two hills (Sandburg) Ms., n.d.
Read, Gardner	From a lute of jade (Chinese) ©1943, 3 songs
Reinecke, Carl	At the seaside (RLS) ©1904
	Young night thought (RLS) ©1904
	Bunny rabbit white (Reinick, trans. Traquair) ©1904
Rogers, James H.	George's song (Goethe, trans. Traquair) ©1904
	The time for making songs has come (Hagedorn) ©1919
Rorem, Ned	Spring (Hopkins) oz., 1947
	7 little prayers (Goodmand) oz., 1946
	Look, stranger at this island (Auden) oz., n.d.
	Stopping by woods on a snowy evening (Frost) oz., 1947
	Prayer (Eliot) oz., 1946
	Spring and fall (Hopkins) oz., 1946
	Poem (Goodman) 1947
	A burnt ship (Donne) oz., 1945
	Anniversary (Kubly) oz., 1946
	The knight of the grail (Anon.) oz., 1944
	Alleluia, 1946
	Doll boy (e.e.cummings) oz., 1944
	On a singing girl (Wylie) oz., 1946
	The soul sings (Rorem) oz., 1947
	Catullus: on the burial of his brother (trans. Beardley) oz., 1947
	Love's stricken "Why" (Dickinson) oz., 1947
	Bawling blues (Goodman) oz., n.d.
	Epigram (O'Donnell) oz., 1947
	My true love is a bird (no author given) oz., 1944
	Psalm 100, oz., 1945, ©1946, 3 copies
	Psalm 120, a song of David, ©1946
Sacco, John	Never the nightingale (Crapsey) ©1940
	Strictly germ-proof (Guiterman) ©1941
	Rapunsel (Crapsey) ©1941
	Let it be forgotten (Teasdale) ©1941
Saminsky, Lazare	Anne Boleyn's dirge, ©1937
	Mary Stuart's farewell to France, ©1937
	Queen Estherka's laugh (Saminsky) ©1937
Sargent, Paul	Joy ride (Richardson) oz., 1941
	River road (Maxwell) oz., n.d.
Scott, Tom	Jenny kissed me (Hunt) oz.
Shaw, Martin	Heffle my cuckoo fair (Kipling) ©1919
Schelling, Ernest	Love song (Page) ©1907
Schuman, William	Orpheus with his lute (Shakespeare) ©1944
Shephard, Arthur	The starling lake (O'Sullivan) oz., 1944, 2 copies
	Bacchus (Sherman) oz., n.d., 2 copies
	The fiddlers (De la Mare) oz., n.d.
Slonimsky, N.	Silhouettes (Wilde) ©1927
Smith, Melville	The flight of the moon (Wilde) ©1927
	Three songs: Lost, Teamsters farewell, Sketch (Sandburg) Ms., oz., n.d., 2 copies
Smith, T.	Blue squills (Teasdale) Ms., 1943
Sokoloff, Noel	Trail the white rose (Joyce) oz., 1946
	Love lyric (Hague) oz., 1943
	Words for music (Ross) oz., 1945
	I would in that sweet bosom be (Joyce) oz., 1946
	Gentle lady (Joyce) oz., 1946
	When the shy star (Joyce) oz., 1946
Sowerby, Leo	For late autumn (Jeanne De Lamarter) oz., 1941
	With strawberries (Henley) ©1925
	He's gone away (folk) n.d.
Stock, Frederick	To a firefly (Holty) ©1932
	The letter (no author given) Ms., n.d.
Taylor, Deems	My rose (Stuart) ©1917
	The rivals (Stephens) ©1920
	The faithless lover (Belgian folk) ©1920
	The messenger (Stephens) ©1920
Thomson, Virgil	Film (no author given) ph. and ph. neg., 1930
	Air de Phedre (Racine) oz., n.d.
	Le singe et le leopard (Fontaine) oz., n.d.
	Tout le monde (Jourde Chaleur, Rohan) ph. and ph. neg., 1928
	La valse gregorienne, Ms., 1927
	La belle en dormant (Hugnet) oz., n.d., 4 songs
	Mon amour est bon a dire (no author given) Ms., n.d.
	Stabat Mater (Jacob) oz., ©1933, 2 copies
	Le berceau de Gertrude Stein (Hugnet) ph. neg., 1928
Triggs, Harold	Nuptial (Bird) oz., n.d.
Vanderlip, Ruth Wright	Silver (De la Mare) 1945
	Fold song (Self) 1947
	Malediction (Stephens) 1945
Van Vactor, David	Requiescat (Wilde) oz., n.d.*
	I know a maiden (Heine, trans. Longfellow) oz., n.d.
	How can I sing light-souled and fancy free (Lorenzo dei Medici) oz., n.d.
Wagenaar, Bernard	From a very little sphinx (Millay) ©1926, 7 songs
Ward, Robert	Anna Miranda (Benet) oz., 1940
	Rain has fallen all the day (Joyce) oz., 1940
	Sorrows of Mydath (Masefield) oz., 1939
Watts, Winter	Little shepherd's song (Percy) ©1922
	Little page's song (Percy) ©1920
	Beloved, it is morn (Hickey) ©1919
	Joy (Teasdale) ©1922
Westbrook, Helen Searles	Songs of life and love: Alabaster, Hindu cradle song, If you call me (Naidu) ©1941
Wheelock, John H.	Journey's end, Ms.
Wilda, Bela	Bishop Hatto (Southey) oz., 1946**, 2 copies
	The lovely isle (Claudian) Ms., n.d.
	A remembered conversation (Prokosch) Ms., n.d.
	Song of songs (Partridge) ph., 1930, ©1940
	A dish of peaches in Russia (Stevens) oz., 1946
	My heart (Ramon) Ms., oz., 1945
	Je chante haut pour m'entendre (Viele, trans. Griffin) oz., 1946
	Silver (De la Mare) ph. and ph. neg., 1937
	Flower loft (Walles) oz., 1945
	Solange, the magnolia (Stevens) ph. neg., 1946
	The time (Morton) Ms., 1945
	Invocation (Hundley) Ms., 1939
	King's garden (Speyer) oz., 1945*
	Madame Sosostris (Eliot) Ms., 1943
	Out in the garden (Mansfield) Ms., 1943
	Peace on earth (Anon.) Ms., 1940
	Flow, oh my tears, Ms., 1941, 2 copies
	Summer the lovely (Millay) Ms., n.d.
Winslow, Richard K.	Stopping by woods on a snowy evening (Frost) oz., 1943
Wolfe, Jacques	Short'nin bread (Woud) ©1928

 

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¹The Library acquisition notice of July 1948, announcing the receipt of the collection, numbers the items at about 1500 works; it states also that in addition to the songs, the bequest included "thirty grand opera scores, some of them rare." These have evidently been absorbed into the library's general holdings (they are not named).